Galway Kinnell’s The Book of Nightmares
“I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on.” –Hamlet, I.V Galway Kinnell’s The Book of Nightmares–in the tradition of Howl or The Wasteland–does not so much strike a nerve in the culture (as Eliot and Ginsberg did) as much as it plumbs deep into timeless archetypal motifs of death, madness …